Powder-puff pin.



J. WETZLER.

POWDER PUFF PIN. APPLIOATION rmm JULY 24, 1908.

Patnte Aug. 31, 1909.

' pin, most generally a comparatively JEFFERSON WE'IZLEE, 0F NEW YORK, N. Y.

POWDER-PUFF PIN.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Aug. 31, 1909.

// Application filed July 24, 1908. Serial No. 445,110.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it .known that I, JEFFERSON WETZLER, a cltizen of the United States, residing at the city of New York, in the borough of Manhattan and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Powder-Puff Pins, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to pins, buttons, or equivalent devices, particularly hat or breast pms used by ladies, and covers a means by which the hat or other pin is made to contain a powder puff or similar device which is made a part of the pin in such a way that the latter constitutes a convenient handle by which the powder puff may be manipulated;

From another aspect, the present invention may be said to consist in a powder puff or similar device of such a form as to serve as a hat or similar pin or device.

The invention consists in the features of construction and combination as hereinafter set forth and claimed. y l

In the drawings: Figure 1 is a perspective view of a hat pin having a powder pufl' and embodying the principles of my invention. Fig/'2 is a vertical sectional view of the same.

Referring to the drawing, 1 designatesi the on stifi pin adapted to serve as a hat pm, an havin a head 2' of rounded or other ornamental outline of sufficient size, in accordance with the prevailing styles, to. furnish a comparatively large chamber or receptacle within its interior.

3 designates the powder puff or similar device which may be constructed of eiderdown, wool, chamois, bristles, or the like. The device 3 is adapted to serve for the application of powdered 'or liquid substances and is, of course, constructed of materials most suitable for the particular substances used. While I have termed this device 3 a puff in the description and claim, I do not desire to be limlted or restricted to a puff or device particularly for the application of powder. This powder puff or evice is contamed within the cavity of the head 2 so as to be available for, use whenever de-' sired, but normally concealed within the pin latter worn in a hat as usual.

so as not to interfere with the ordinary functions of the latter.

While I have described a powder puff and mentioned particular materials and 'construction-thereof, and shown and described a form of hat pin to furnish the containing receptacle, I do not desire to be limited or restricted to the particular devices shown, it being evident that any fair equivalent thereof falls within the spirit and scope of my invention. i.

In the drawings I have illustrated the head 2 of the hat pin made in two separable parts 4 and 5, of which one art 5 1s comparatively large, and ada to to constitute the body of the powder pu receptacle. The minor part or member 4 is quite small, analogous tea cover for the receptacle 5, and this minor member is the one to which is fixed the pin 1. I make the powder puff or similar device fixed to the minor member 4 of the pin headreceptacle, so that, when the minor member 4 is separated from the major member or body of the receptacle,.the puff will be drawn out of the receptacle and supported and maintained in a position for use w th the pin constituting a handle therefor. Inasmuch as the pin, and puff -are both. permanently attached only to theminor member 4, which is comparatively small, it is evident that the latter does not protrude or interfere to an appreciable extent with the use of the P11 The two parts of the receptacle may be fastened together in any convenient way. I have illustrated an ordinary screw-threaded engagement 6, but it is evident that other equivalent fastening'means may be used if desired.

In use the powder puff and powder are packed within the head of the 1n, and the hould occasion arise, as it frequently does, where the powder puff is required, it may be taken out of the pin receptacle and manipulated and used by its supporting pin which serves as a handle.

What I claim is:

A ladys hat pin comprising in combination a pin, a two-part head therefor com prising a minor portion to which the pin is fixed and having a reduced threaded part, a

hollow major portion having interior threads eoiiperating'with the threaded part of said of the hat pin, as end for the purpose set 10 minor portion and having a rounded outline forth.

powder puff fixed to said-minorportion and v adapted to fit within the cavity of said major Witnesses: .portien .when the latter 'is' screwed and W'Anbo M. (111mm,

merging into the outline of said miner por- In witness whereof, I Subscribe my sigtlon whereby arounded outs de contouris nature, in tl' e presence of two witnesses. ."5.pr0duced by the assembled parts, andya 1 vJEFFERSON firmly fixed on the minor portion in the use JAMES DANTONO. 

